"Hail New Entertainement"

This is a wax casting sculpture I did that was built upon a hollwed out television set on its back and a bronze cast of my hand holding an unplugged cord. This was a commentary on the redundancy of entertainment culture in that our popular media stories are recycled constantly, especially in television and film. I borrowed from popular cartoon series that were played during my childhood but are continually being reinterpreted into new series that resemble the old, but are warped new. From casts of toys I featured Marvel Comic characters, Care bears, and Disney characters being sucked or pulled down back into the oozing screen by giant arms and a sinking hole. There are also syndicated characters more contemporary to the 2000's watching and overseeing the recycling of these characters.

The year I made this my projects revolved around television mostly and I feel that tv itself and movies such as Videodrome deeply influenced this project. I have been fond of television my whole life so it only seems fair that I try preserve its memory by showing heartless re-exploitation of story telling for massive profits.

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My first welded metal sculpture. As a story behind it I imagined that it was the skeletal structure of an archaic or futurist building. That the walls and surface had been stripped away by time and all that was left was a skeleton. In the end its a mock model of archaeology. My class mate Cory MacNiven interestingly added that on Long Island near his home were zany unorthodox homes similar to my design. He mentioned in terms of architecture that maybe I was in the wrong school. For a while after this I pondered about atending an architecture program, but have deicided to save it for a grad school choice if I pursue it.